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Karen Rabbitt Speaking and Resources

Faithful to scripture, honest about her own struggles, and with compassion for your pain, Karen will encourage your group to let God dig deep. Listeners say she is genuine, gracious, soothing, and encouraging. Her practical words, honed from twenty years of providing psychotherapy, will motivate you and your people to seek God with your whole hearts.

Contact Karen for more information or to book.

Presentations on Forgiveness and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality:

These can be 1 hour talks to weekend retreats.

Weeds and Seeds
Satan takes the opportunity of childhood trauma to plant weed-lies in your heart. God wants to pull those weeds and plant his truth-seeds. Based on Karen’s own experience and informed by her professional skills, this presentation will help your group discern those lies, especially about our identity as dear children of the Father. Satan loves to feed our shame; God loves to feed our hunger for his love and truth.
Letting Our Parents Off the Hook
No parent is perfect. We all sin. If your father or mother seriously sinned against you by violating your physical, sexual, or emotional boundaries, this presentation will help you find grace to choose forgiveness and grieve the losses. Karen will lead your group in exercises and prayers designed to further the healing process.
Stop Punishing Yourself
Sometimes we are the hardest person to forgive. We know we should, but we just can’t let go of our self-punishment about the abortion we had at 19, the first marriage we screwed up, or the child we screamed at. Karen will lead your group into more self-awareness about why it’s so hard to let ourselves off the hook. Your people will leave with exercises and prayers to continue on the road to emotional freedom.
Shameless Self-Talk: God-Talk for Everyone
Shame is the master negative emotion. That feeling of deficiency—about our bodies, our choices, our intelligence—feeds depression, anger, and anxiety. Karen will help your group discover the elements of shame-based self-talk. As a group and individually, she will offer experiences that will open the door to replacing shame with grace.

These are additional talk titles that can be customized for your group:

Emotional Honesty with God
Making Sense of Depression
Making More Sense of Depression
Healing Our Hurts God’s Way
Healing our Distorted Image of God
Shameless Self-Talk: God-Talk for Overweight Women
Sisters Together
At Home with Jesus
Tying Up Loose Ends
Take No Good Thing for Granted

Karen can also work with your group to develop a presentation suited for your event.

Previous seminar/retreat attendees say:

“You are a gifted leader.”
“Karen does a very blessed job.”
“Sensitive, insightful, affirming.”
“Karen is a very compelling speaker.”
“Karen handled the off-topic comments with grace.”
“This has been by far the best women’s retreat I have ever been to.”

Contact Karen for fees and availability.

Resources:

A Dozen Helps to Forgive:

Forgiveness is both a choice and a process.
Make a decision to give up anger.
Pray to be made willing. Or to be made willing to be made willing.
Feel your feelings in a safe place, with a safe person.
To say, “I forgive,” but never feel your pain is denial.
To feel your pain, anger, and sadness but never choose forgiveness is stuck.
Ask for grace both to feel and to forgive.
Study Jesus’ words on forgiveness.
To forgive is not to condone
To forgive is not to excuse.
To forgive doesn’t mean you don’t matter.
Trust God for justice.

For those of us who struggle with eating too much:

Cookies

I reached for the chocolate chip cookie, hot from the oven. Before I knew it, I’d eaten six.

I reached for the chocolate chip cookie, hot from the oven. I thought, why am I reaching for sugar and fat? Before I knew it, I’d eaten five.

I reached for the warm chocolate chip cookie. I thought, Why am I eating? I sat at the kitchen table, found paper and pen. I wrote, “I’m angry because I can’t make my daughter stop fighting her homework.” I ate three chocolate chip cookies.

I reached for the day old cookie. Why? I feel angry and scared. “God, you know my fear. You know my anxiety. Please help me trust you for her future.” I ate one cookie.

I stopped baking cookies.